Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very soon , they eat enough to pass on to the next stage of their life cycle . |
| 2 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 3 | He was n't strong enough to get on to the par-5s in two for eagle chances , so he just chipped and putted for birdies . |
| 4 | If only to get on to the practical arrangements . ’ |
| 5 | By now you will have stimulated the circulation enough to move on to the next stage , which is kneading . |
| 6 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 7 | For a moment he stood gazing balefully at the Corsican 's back as he turned away to pass on down the line . |
| 8 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 9 | So at the end of their dancing career many tried desperately to hang on to the fringes of the theatre world as did matron Daisy Woodworth . |
| 10 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 11 | Ace also felt a twinge of sadness for the Colonel , but felt it best to get on with the job in hand . |
| 12 | And you know in one week , but I 'm quite willing you know just to get on with the handicraft , but I just ca n't be committed . |
| 13 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 14 | There is slightly more to go on with the latter however , and one seems justified in presuming the work of at least two men . |
| 15 | LUCKY to be alive skydiver Terry Wakenshaw vowed yesterday to go on with the sport which killed his girlfriend and almost claimed his life . |
| 16 | I went on through , sliding the heavy plate glass aside to walk on to the humid porch where a morose looking McIllvanney slouched in a cane chair and stared through the insect screens at the darkening sea . |
| 17 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 18 | Like Iris , I was impatient now to get on with the journey south and see the vessel that was to be our home , but when I saw Chanchán … |
| 19 | We have now to get on with the job of saving the plant . ’ |
| 20 | We have now to get on with the job of saving the plant . ’ |
| 21 | Now to move on to the next stage of the argument . |
| 22 | These pads are not needed simply to hold on to the female , who remains passive . |
| 23 | Wicket-keeper Fothergill did well to hang on to the ball low to his right , especially as the whole team went up in jubilation before the ball had reached his gloves . |
| 24 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 25 | It was now becoming increasingly clear that the French were determined at least to hold on to the richest party , namely Cochinchina : or at least this was the unmistakable objective of the new French High Commissioner , the implacable Admiral Thierry d'Argenlieu . |
| 26 | Before he invaded Iran in 1980 , Mr Hussein tried hard to get on with the Islamic zealots who had just seized power in Tehran . |
| 27 | It has yet to catch on in the Third World but when it does it could prove extremely useful . |
| 28 | Robert Davies , signal works engineer : ‘ failed completely to get on with the testing instruction ’ . |
| 29 | Very briefly to move on to the further thing now , What about myself as your prospective candidate ? |
| 30 | Each person has never sought an honour or payment for their selfless work , preferring quietly to get on with the job . |